Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers will walk off their jobs on Thursday, with the one-day work stoppages coming to protest the company’s stance with shops that voted to organize, according to Starbucks Workers United.
The labor action is timed to for Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, an annual event in which the coffee giant hands out holiday-themed reusable cups. Starbucks has refused to negotiate in good faith over staffing and other issues that are particularly acute during promotions, according to the union.
“Starbucks is creating unnecessarily stressful working conditions by scheduling promotion after promotion without increasing staffing,” Neha Cremin, a Starbucks worker in Oklahoma City, said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch. “Starbucks has made it clear that they won’t listen to workers, so we’re advocating for ourselves by going on strike.”
Or support a local Cafe that treats their workers right. Can be hard to find, but they do exist.
I’ll support them if they give me a better deal, lol.
I always find it funny how local places are like “yeah buy local buy local, it’s so important. No, it’s not important enough for us to give you a better deal.”
Things are generally cheaper when you buy more of them. It’s true that once you pass a certain threshold this isn’t as significant, but that threshold can be pretty high.
Then you get into things like commodities trading (eg buying and maybe even selling futures), which is something Starbucks engages in. It would be very hard for a small shop to participate in commodities trading (barriers of entry due to size, time in the day, etc), let alone do it well.
There’s also a bunch of little things that ar a “do it once for all stores” or “do it once for a single store”. At a mom and pop that usually means that they won’t be able to do it as well as a bigger store because of time and resource constraints.
The point is that they can’t afford to shaft anyone because they’re local (ie your goddamn neighbours), so yes, you end up paying closer to the true price for your cup of coffee. Increase that even more if they ensure their produce is certified and actually equitably sourced.
Big franchises screw over others because they can afford to scale to such a degree that no one can compete with their margins and cost savings from vertical integrations.
The coffee is better than Starbucks at small cafes because they don’t burn the beans. Starbucks literally over roasts their beans so they all taste the same. Also it lasts longer on the shelf.
Good coffee doesn’t need to “last longer” because you’re going to drink it fast.
That’ll surely fix it. As soon as I start making coffee at home, the several Starbucks near me will no longer have a line out the door that they don’t have enough staff to keep up with.
I agree, but…
Putting out personal boycotts as the only solution is ineffective. I do support that in general, his comment just came across to me as one of those “I wasn’t buying X anyway. Personal boycott!”. Maybe it wasn’t intended that way.
Also, boycotting Starbucks that have unionized is counterproductive. Boycotting ones that haven’t makes sense.
Would you buy eggs from a farmer that kicks their chickens because everyone else is doing it?
